[lbo-talk] Bush and Foucault

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 5 03:33:24 PDT 2007


"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work."

– Irving Kristol, quoted at http://reason.com/9707/fe.bailey.shtm

-B.

Dennis Claxton wrote:

"From Mark Danner's commencement address to the Berkeley Department of Rhetoric:

But this is all old hat to you, graduates of the Rhetoric Department of 2007, the line of thinking you imbibe with your daily study, for it is present in striking fashion in Foucault and many other intellectual titans of these last decades ­ though even they might have been nonplussed to find it so crisply expressed by a finely tailored man sitting in the White House."



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